I’ve been working for quite a while on finding solutions to the problems we are having in PDE as soon as we need to add support for new OSGi headers, to create new editors for cheatsheet files, p2 categories, etc. Declarative Services tooling is a good illustration of all these...
The EMO has just approved the release of e4 0.9. There s a lot of excitement around this project and I encourage everybody to get involved. First, please read McQ’s excellent overview, then read the whitepaper. Visit the e4 site. Most important, go and get it (though you may have...
One of the things that you can do to make your code—and by extension your project—accessible to your adopter community is to make the code as easy to find and navigate as possible. I have some thoughts about making code easy to find that I’ll share another day. Today, I’m...
Sometime yesterday we surpassed the 1 million download request mark for Galileo packages. It took us just 27 days to hit that mark and this number doesn’t even include the bitTorrents or the member distros. The Galileo launch activities have also been very popular and successful: – 29 DemoCamps were...
Last week I started working on the New Committer Handbook as a resource to help—curiously enough—new committers get up to speed with all those things that they need to know. It’s still very much a work in progress, but it’s coming along nicely. My ultimate goal is to provide a...
Git has been growing in popularity, and I am particularly interested in its potential to reduce barriers to participating and contributing to Eclipse projects. There has been a vigorous conversation about using Git for Eclipse projects going on for some time over in bug 257706, including my own reservations about...
OSGI R4.2 (thus Equinox 3.5) comes (well, will come, since the spec. is not final yet) with a new simple and handy utility: the org.osgi.framework.FrameworkUtil.getBundle(Class) static method, which allows to retrieve the bundle a given class belongs to. More specifically, this method will give you the bundle who loaded the...
So I have this new conspiracy theory. I’m not sure if I actually believe it, but I think it’s plausible. In my absence last week, I managed to accumulate more than 2,000 junk emails in my eclipse.org inbox. Many of these emails were the standard spam-fare. I recall reading that...
I’ve started an effort to rework the Development Resources wiki page. Most of this effort is concerned with providing some additional prose around the existing content to make it easier for contributors and committers to make sense of the Eclipse Development Process and navigate the many resources available. I’ve decided...
After about 3 years of activity in the Eclipse community, and about 2 years of –not always…– regular blogging in French, I’m finally ready to join Planet Eclipse and start sharing with the community! I’m interested in many topics, thus expect posts about PDE, OSGi, Modeling (EMF, xText, …), Continuous...